EMOTIONAL JAM - A VIABLE CONCEPT - A REPL Y

The author suggests to locate the syndrome of ''emotional jam'' within the frame of research on authoritarism, and illustrates the psychomet ric quality of the ''emotional jam'' scale using a sample of West Germ an students (n = 52). The correlations between this scale and a balanc ed measure of authoritarianism varied with gender and the specific con struction of the instruments used. The observed conceptual and psychom etric shortcomings limit the usefulness of the ''emotional jam'' scale for cross-cultural research.